New Girl - The Creatures

Chapter 18

I woke up the next day feeling disgruntled which was easily pinned on the news I received last night. I glanced at the clock on my phone, letting me know I'd slept in until 11 AM. Rolling out of bed, I stumbled over to my closet and threw on an old, black, and huge Coheed and Cambria shirt with some gray leggings.

For a second, I thought about how little I wore actual pants and continued getting dressed. I walked into my bathroom and dampened my hair slightly so it was easy for me to put it into two Dutch braids, brushed my teeth, and went downstairs to see if I could make a smoothie of some sort.

"Morning, sleeping beauty," Seamus said to me in passing. "You know it," I said while staring at my phone, trying to sound smug while feeling a prick of anger, and continued into the kitchen. James was in there, thank God, and so was Sly. "Hey, want a toaster strudel?" James asked, gesturing towards the sickly sweet pastry he was putting into the toaster.

"I'm good, but do you guys have a blender?" I asked, desperate for something refreshing. "Yeah, it's in that cabinet," he pointed to a cabinet to my right, and as I fumbled through it, he added, "I didn't know you listened to Coheed, they're one of my favorite bands. Dan too."

"Really? My mom got me into them, they're pretty good," I said, finally finding the sweet, sweet blender. I threw the fridge open and found the Greek yogurt I'd bought at the store, as well as some strawberries, blueberries, milk, and spinach. I grabbed some ice from the freezer and threw all of my ingredients into the blender, and a spoonful of peanut butter for good measure.

I started to blend them together as Sly turned and looked at what I was making. "Ew! Did you just put fucking spinach in your smoothie?" he asked, sounding like a grossed out 5-year-old. I stopped the blender took a big drink, which now had a faint green tint to it.

"Mmmm, spinach," I teased. James cackled as Sly pretended to throw up. He left James and me in the kitchen, running and not explaining why. "How are you feeling?" James asked me once Sly's footsteps were far away.

"I'm okay. Seamus called me sleeping beauty but I've decided to act like a cocky prick around him instead of getting mad like I wanted to," I said, taking another swig. "I doubt he even knows that you're aware of his little date," he said through a mouthful of strudel.

We were quiet for a moment, consuming our breakfasts in bliss. "Are there any recordings coming up? I miss doing gameplay with you guys," I asked suddenly.

It's been a week since they'd recorded something I could be involved in, not like their Treehouse reborn Minecraft series or something like that. "Yeah actually, PAX East is like next week, and Jordan was talking about whether or not you'd want to come and asked me to find out. Do you wanna come?"

I quickly jumped on board. I'd always wanted to go to PAX, and it seemed like a lot of fun to be able to travel with the guys, even if Seamus would be there.

James seemed really excited about me coming and started to tell me about how he planned on having a little blip on the channel about his adventures at PAX. I talked to Jordan later on and he helped me book my flight with them and asked who I'd like to room with.

The only one I felt comfortable enough with was James, so he and I were going to room together while Aleks and Sly, Jordan and Dan, and Max and Seamus had their own rooms.

I was really excited, but also nervous about meeting fans in person for the first time. I talked to Dan about me helping James record his little adventures during PAX. I figured it'd be best for me to be behind the camera rather than the focus of it and secretly wanted to keep away from Seamus and have to interact as little as possible with him.

Leading up to PAX, James and I planned out snacks that we would bring and different developer interviews and game reviews and introductions that we'd see. I decided to pay for a checked bag so we could bring a ton of snacks, and the days preceding our flight were filled with running around, making errands and last minute uploads and plans.

I rarely spoke to Seamus, since he was either holed up in his room or out with this new 'Ash' girl and as I went to bed the night before we flew out east, I was giddy and excited and nervous all at once.